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tuchel--how-we-are-choosing-whether-players-can-play

Tuchel: How we are choosing whether players can play

22 Dec 2021


Thomas Tuchel has made it clear that with Covid limiting the number of
players he has available from game to game, he is making selection calls
that would normally be against his better judgement, but it is not a case
of forcing a player on to the pitch – there is a dialogue.


https://i.imgur.com/Q8fyKgV.jpg


The problems were brought into sharp focus at Wolverhampton on Sunday when
a lack of central midfielders led to the deployment of N'Golo Kante and
Trevoh Chalobah (with Mateo Kovacic coming on) despite minimal training
after injury or Covid, and it remains to be seen if any similar situation
arises at Brentford tonight, but ahead of this cup meeting, Tuchel has
thrown further light on how he is choosing his teams.


'I don't say I am going to put you in. I ask the players how do you feel.
We're talking here,' he explains. 'Who am I to say you play? If the player
is not ready to play he does not play. We're discussing here every single
player, how many minutes do we think, what did he do in training.


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Kante on the ball at the weekend


'Of course it's a calculated risk but it is a risk. In an ideal world
N'Golo would not have started [at Wolves] and for sure not 90 minutes. In
an ideal world Kova would have done training at Cobham but with every
single central midfielder out, it was a choice to take and with every
single striker out, there's another choice to take.


'It's like this and with other defenders out, you have to overuse some
players to be competitive. Nobody needs to cry for us. It's just the
situation.'


Tuchel acknowledges that an alternative would have been to include Academy
players in the team rather than the likes of Kante and Kovacic, and this
where the overall risk factor is being calculated.


'We talked to our medical department, we talked to the player and then we
take the risk,' he emphasises.


'I can clearly see that people look at our squad and think this is a
strong squad, but I said before the [Wolves] match this is the situation
and it will not hold us from having the highest demands of our performance
and of our players on the pitch. We have a strong, tough team on the pitch
and we will fight for the win, which we actually did, and still we took
some risks.


'Hopefully I don't catch Covid but if I did, I'm not sure after 10 days
that I go for a run straight away. or do sports like Mateo Kovacic did.


https://i.imgur.com/uQNQ3G6.jpg


'I put him on the field so I took the risk, I could have left him at home
so we would have arrived with only 13 players and took one from the
Academy, which is already shut down because of Covid.


'So when we speak out we have reason to speak out, we're not speaking out
because we're missing the two big strikers and we cannot accept to have
players injured or out.'


Tuchel emphasises the degree of care is such that Kai Havertz was left out
against Everton despite a lack of strikers and a negative Covid test,
because he was feeling ill, and Jorginho was sent home into isolation when
there was doubt over his test result.


https://i.imgur.com/KPlq1P7.jpg
Jorginho in training this week


'So we're taking care, this is what we do. We want to have our best team
but it was a concern because it backfires on people who should not play so
many minutes.'


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-we-take-huge-risks-so-it-s-my-fault----tuchel-on-chalobah-injur

'We take huge risks so it's my fault' – Tuchel on Chalobah injury at
Wolves

22 Dec 2021


Thomas Tuchel has taken responsibility for putting his players at greater
risk of injury as a depleted Chelsea squad attempts to cope with dwindling
numbers and a hectic festive fixture schedule.


https://i.imgur.com/qdRqWpR.jpg


The Blues were hit hard with seven Covid-enforced absences at the weekend,
with Jorginho sent home from Wolverhampton on the morning of the game
after returning a test result that later turned out to be a false positive.


At the same time, Mateo Kovacic had only just returned from his own 10-day
isolation, while N'Golo Kante and Trevoh Chalobah had just come back from
more conventional injury issues, which is why the club made a formal
request for the fixture to be postponed.


With the pressure on those players that are available growing by the day,
Tuchel fears he is asking individuals to do too much, too soon, which
could prove particularly damaging in the long run.


Chalobah made his comeback from a three-game spell on the sidelines as a
late substitute in our home draw with Everton last week and was used again
as an auxiliary midfielder against Wolves, where he was withdrawn at
half-time following an earlier impact injury.


In his pre-match media briefing on Tuesday, Tuchel labelled Chalobah 'a
big doubt' to face Brentford in tonight's Carabao Cup quarter-final tie
and went on to admit the 22-year-old had been thrown back into action
ahead of schedule as a result of our unique situation.


'The injury for Trevoh is a very unusual one because we made him play, so
it's my fault,' said the boss.


'We take huge risks and we made him play in an unused position because
none of the central midfielders were there so we tried him for his
physicality.


https://i.imgur.com/ZFZ2HF3.jpg
Chalobah made his first start in five matches against Wolves but didn't
return for the second half after picking up an injury


'He comes from an injury and played too early against Everton but he
escaped hopefully luckily enough with just a painful injury and nothing
worse.'


Tuchel also revealed the challenges were psychological as well as
physical, with players and staff understandably anxious over the
deteriorating public health situation and the outbreak within such a
tight-knit group.


'I would like to play against us right now,' he claimed. 'If people think
arriving in a group of 40 people having 10 Covid cases and three days of
consecutive positive tests is a good state of mind to produce high-level
performance, wherever you work, then fine. I will not try for one second
to change your mind.'

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